Pictures of Romance

Pictures of Romance
Author: Wendy Steiner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1988
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226772295

Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the literary romance.

Looking at Pictures

Looking at Pictures
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780811224246

A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art

Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

Walter Benjamin and Romanticism
Author: Andrew Benjamin
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0567198650

Walter Benjamin and Romanticism explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as H÷lderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and H÷lderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between criticism and Romanticism can still play a vital role in contemporary philosophical and literary practice.Contributors: Andrew Benjamin, Josh Cohen, David Ferris, Beatrice Hanssen, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Charlie Louth, Bettine Menke, Winfried Menninghaus, Anthony Phelan, Sigrid Weigel

Romantic Art in Practice

Romantic Art in Practice
Author: Thora Brylowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108426409

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

Delacroix and His Forgotten World

Delacroix and His Forgotten World
Author: Margaret MacNamidhe
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-08-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781780769370

The image of Eugene Delacroix as an august artist with an august oeuvre was initially frozen into place by posthumous tributes and it has continued to the present. He was one of the finest yet least understood painters of the nineteenth century, the golden age of the French Romantic movement. He is remembered best for his masterpiece, La Liberte guidant le people, but few of his works have received the kind of constant, fascinated revisiting that has sealed the iconic status of Theodore Gericault's Le Radeau de la Meduse, for example. This book is one of the first to look carefully at individual paintings by Delacroix, especially at one of his most important works - a key but often overlooked painting from early Romanticism's heyday, Scene des massacres de Scio.

The Art Of Seduction

The Art Of Seduction
Author: Robert Greene
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2010-09-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1847651402

Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.

The State of Art Criticism

The State of Art Criticism
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135867593

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject. Contributors include Dave Hickey, James Panero, Stephen Melville, Lynne Cook, Michael Newman, Whitney Davis, Irit Rogoff, Guy Brett and Boris Groys.